For buyers and sellers on the go, eBay made a number of enhancements to its mobile apps and mobile website that make both shopping and selling easier, including additional search capabilities. “We want to provide eBay buyers and sellers with Read more
A text-message exchange between a senior executive at GSI Commerce and his friend in 2011 before eBay acquired the company has been cited as evidence of insider trading in criminal charges filed by the government. eBay has since rebranded the Read more
eBay is running a free-listing promotion with a twist: it also gives sellers half-off of commission fees. Sellers can list up to 50,000 auction or fixed-price listings per month during the promotion period and pay no insertion fees and only Read more
Etsy is adding a mobile app to its lineup that is exclusively designed for sellers, who rely heavily on mobile devices to manage their Etsy shops, the company said. With Sell on Etsy, sellers can manage their shop activity feed Read more
How much would you pay to avoid going to the grocery store, big-box chain or warehouse membership club for nonperishable groceries? Amazon is prepared to deliver up to 45 pounds (or four cubic feet) of “everyday essentials” in “everyday sizes” Read more
Etsy is acquiring Grand St., a marketplace for “creative technology.” Grand St. is a curated marketplace that connects independent hardware makers with buyers. It’s a sort of Quirky-Kickstarter-Etsy mashup that according to Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson shares Etsy’s vision “the Read more
The idea of Toys R Us or Best Buy carrying goods from eBay or Amazon merchants sounds unlikely. But those marketplaces’ smaller rival Etsy has found some retailers are welcoming its sellers’ goods onto their store shelves. Why are stores Read more
Google made several major announcements on Tuesday during its AdWords Performance Forum, including a new way to help mobile app developers reach customers and new tools that target large enterprise-level advertisers. The latter could spell trouble for third-party vendors already Read more
For many years, small online sellers operating from one location had only to look to their own state regulations to determine if they had to collect sales tax for in-state purchases. But now if they use fulfillment services, such as Read more
A new study shows shoppers scale back when Amazon begins collecting sales tax in their states – but in-state brick-and-mortar retail stores are not a huge beneficiary. Amazon long fought against having to collect sales tax, claiming it isn’t required Read more
